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Friday, August 26, 2005, was a Friday like many other Fridays during hurricane season in New Orleans. There was a strong hurricane, Katrina, the eleventh in a very active season, approaching the Florida Keys. The expert meteorologists were predicting a track that would bring her into the Gulf of Mexico and swing northwest straight up the mouth of the Mississippi River and into New Orleans. This was not an uncommonly predicted track for a hurricane in the Gulf. A relatively large number of storms start their paths there with their sights set on New Orleans but begin to veer eastward or westward as they encounter various prevailing obstacles, such as an atmospheric high pressure system, warmer pockets of water, or protective barrier islands. Consequently, New Orleanians had their eyes and ears open for the latest weather reports, debated the possibility of this being the "Big One," but were not necessarily ready to evacuate because yet another hurricane was predicted to make landfall. Things began to heat up on Saturday, August 27, as the storm continued to follow the predicted track. People began to batten down the hatches, put up storm shutters, board up windows, and fill bathtubs with

Lessons Learned From Katrina: One Department's Perspective

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Friday, August 26, 2005, was a Friday like many other Fridays during hurricane season in New Orleans. There was a strong hurricane, Katrina, the eleventh in a very active season, approaching the Florida Keys. The expert meteorologists were predicting a track that would bring her into the Gulf of Mexico and swing northwest straight up the mouth of the Mississippi River and into New Orleans. This was not an uncommonly predicted track for a hurricane in the Gulf. A relatively large number of storms start their paths there with their sights set on New Orleans but begin to veer eastward or westward as they encounter various prevailing obstacles, such as an atmospheric high pressure system, warmer pockets of water, or protective barrier islands. Consequently, New Orleanians had their eyes and ears open for the latest weather reports, debated the possibility of this being the "Big One," but were not necessarily ready to evacuate because yet another hurricane was predicted to make landfall. Things began to heat up on Saturday, August 27, as the storm continued to follow the predicted track. People began to batten down the hatches, put up storm shutters, board up windows, and fill bathtubs with
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Lessons Learned From Katrina: One Department's Perspective

Winstead, Daniel K.; Legeai, Candy
Academic Psychiatry , Volume 31 (3): 190
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Jun 1, 2007

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  • Publisher AADPRT
  • Copyright Copyright © 2007 Academic Psychiatry. All rights reserved.
  • ISSN 1042-9670
  • D.O.I. 10.1176/appi.ap.31.3.190
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